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by throwaway31131 11mo ago
Which lawsuit was that? I think it’s been a while since there was a MBP MLB lawsuit but maybe I’m forgetting about one. This is the last one I recall. “Apple faces class-action lawsuit over 2011 MacBook Pro GPU issues“ https://9t
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by throwaway31131 11mo ago
TSMC in Taiwan has a significant share of the wafers produced by the world every month. If those wafers were not produced the global economy would suffer badly. It takes years to bring a fab online. Fab 21 in Arizona took 5 years to enter
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
For the cores working hardest to achieve the absolute lowest cpi running user code, this is true. But these days the computers have computers in them to manage the system. And these kinds of statements aren’t necessarily true for these “i
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
How old is the kid? When my kids were less than 10 I took them to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View CA and showed them how all the mechanical computers work. They have some exploded and simplified exhibits that are very visual s
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
Validation that a PCB was manufactured correctly is... easy. Disagree, but how about VLSI. It's hugely automated. Moore's Law is exponential but team sizes aren't. That productivity gap is made up for with huge amounts of
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London Became a Global Hub for Phone Theft. Now We Know Why(nytimes.com)
8 points by throwaway31131 1y ago|1 comments
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
Data maybe somewhat dated and I haven’t measured it myself but, “Per his findings, Chrome used 290MB of RAM per open tab, while Safari only used 12MB of RAM per open tab.” https://www.macrumors.com/2021/02/20/
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
Doesn’t that make sense though as each manipulates a different layer in the memory hierarchy allowing the programmer to control the latency and throughput implications. I see it as a good thing.
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
Maybe not all Bavaria, but the capital has been trying since 2004. https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-so...
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
But all that information is in the engineering files that are neither the schematic or the layout. You might guess some information from the layout, but on some crazy HDI PCB like the iPhone uses, you'll be missing most of the informa
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
You don't need a schematic to do that.
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
That's assuming they can get their hands on the "black box" ASICs
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
The Lantertronics YouTube channel has a bunch of good stuff. https://www.youtube.com/@Lantertronics Also, Small Signal Audio Design by Douglas Self is really good, but probably not as a first EE textbook, and you have to r
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
> no more engineering for engineering’s sake I'm not sure many successful engineering orgs did much of that but also the environment our creations live in is much different now. It was a huge task just to get our programs to run at
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
In my opinion you've actually hit upon the interesting part of AI. If you can create an application easily with AI, then someone else can also create that application easily with AI. This means the value is no longer in that applicati
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
Maybe not a railroad but I imagine the data centers won't be worth nothing... I imagine the AI bubble bust will be like the .com bubble bust. Of the 20 (or whatever number) of companies that have a shot, something like 3 will survive
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
Also, the big challenges in software organizations I deal with are getting a group of a dozen or so “code-slingers” to work effectively as a team. That’s really hard and it’s been the fundamental management problem for the entire time I’ve
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
If you have more bugs than you can fix in a given amount of time then you have to prioritize somehow. “This bug didn't block release X-1, why should it block release X?” Is actually a pretty strong argument and tough, but not impossibl
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
I’d say it’s not even problem solving and it’s more pattern recognition. I actually love LC and have been doing a problem a week for years. Basically I give myself 30 minutes and see what I can do. It’s my equivalent to the Sunday crosswo
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
That’s a good point I hadn’t considered.
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
I get it. But on the other hand, if you in a situation that requires a six month food supply, because there is no resupply available and you can’t relocate, you have bigger problems. Like the mob of hungry people outside your house.
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
Los Angelinos would disagree https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
That’s certainly true but at the same time, when I was a kid in the early 90s, we watched TV but cartoons ended (we did not have cable or a computer). I came home from school, ate a snack, watched TV for about an hour with a friend, cartoon
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
Cost is relative. LIDAR maybe be expensive relative to a camera or two but it’s very inexpensive compared to hiring a full time driver. Crashes aren’t particularly cheap either. Neither are insurance premiums.
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
Percent utilization for most operating systems is the amount of time the idle task is not scheduled. So for both workloads the idle task was never scheduled, hence 100% "utilization".
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
Junior engineers are getting hired but there are definitely fewer positions available. It’s scary for sure but it’s also a normal part of the boom & bust cycle that is inherent to the tech industry. If anything, AI investment is proppi
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
When the majority of people want what you want, democracy is great. When the majority of people don’t want what you want, democracy sucks.
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
The main issue is we’re not there today and it’s not obvious what that world looks like. We all had junk drawers of useless charging cables, everyone agreed it was stupid, hence a universal charging connector standard along with the promise
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
> To push further, Google and Apple have basically as much power as the US. If this is true then why is Tim Cook visiting Trump? Shouldn’t it be the other way around.
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by throwaway31131 1y ago
> The problem isn't that locked-down devices exist - it's that we don't have enough truly open alternatives for those who want them. Not for lack of trying. See for yourself https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik

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